[will_pseudonym]

This may be quite useful to health insurance actuaries in the years to come, depending on state laws. Though I imagine in the long run, they would vastly prefer a fully sequenced genome for all insureds, or IQ tests.

I wonder if we'll see those kinds of things in the future. I guess on a long enough timeline, the question isn't if, but when.

[timwaagh]

isn't sequencing genomes expensive though? what if they could have 90% of predictive power for the price of a filled out zipcode instead of requiring everybody to do lab tests?

[will_pseudonym]

It is expensive currently. It's dramatically decreased in price over time, though. ($2.3B in 2003, to $1000 in 2014[0])

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/10/illumina-wants-to-sequence...